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ARTS & CULTURE
Contemporary art lovers, like Diaghilev, expect to be astonished. A century after the impresario's challenge, radical innovation is enshrined as cultural orthodoxy, but it's unfortunately accompanied by a shadow side: aesthetic obsolescence. The results are confusing, to say the least.
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Vancouver Art Gallery To Move, Double In Size
"The VAG will move into a new building on land occupied until now by the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver near BC Place. The gallery will double in size in its new home to 320,000 square feet.
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ARTS & CULTURE
8th Annual Art Sale Fund-Raiser More than 70 artists donate their work to benefit 21 Grand's exhibition program. Fri., June 6, 7-10 p.m.; Sat., June 7, 1-5 p.m.; Sun., June 8, 1-5 p.m., free. 21 Grand Gallery/Performance Space, 416 25th St., Oakland, 510-444-7263, 21Grand.org .
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A Festival for You
Arguably the best culture event in the East Bay, Oakland's annual Art & Soul Fest has featured everyone from soul singer Angie Stone to bassist and conductor Marcus Shelby, to Fillmore Slim (a former pimp who apparently used his hoes' earnings to bankroll his blues career).
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Tomah, Wis., school backs off ban on John 3:16
MADISON, Wis. — The Tomah School District has formally agreed to allow religious expression in student artwork to settle a federal lawsuit. The Alliance Defense Fund sued the district in March on behalf of a Tomah High School student.
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Minnesota: Students Vandalize Portraits at Capitol
In flesh and blood, former Gov. Jesse Ventura is stubborn and unvarnished. In oil paint, it is a different story, which is good news for the two high school freshmen who are believed to have made marks on his portrait when their United States government class toured the Capitol in St. Paul. ?It turns out the ink wasn?t very stubborn and the paintings had enough varnish to keep the ink from ...
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Focus In On Buena Vista, Lexington and Rockbridge County
Rockbridge Area Tourism is proud to announce the Tourism Photography Contest. Photograph finalists will be on exhibit at the two regional visitor centers located in Lexington and Buena Vista. In addition, the photographs will be considered for inclusion in the 2009 Visitor Guide.
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Caleb Neelon Is Working On It
Carmichael Gallery presents new paintings and sculptures from the artist and writer.
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Watermelon decorating contest set for June 17
FROM STAFF REPORTSCORDELE - Keep Crisp Beautiful will again sponsor its Watermelon Decorating Contest June 17 at Flint River Pottery.
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• Soaking in the sun
The opening round of the NCAA Women’s Championship started Tuesday and Golfweek photography director Tracy Wilcox snapped these shots.
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Eastwood joins dark films among Cannes favorites
An animated documentary about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and an unflinching portrait of the Naples mafia were among the front-runners for top honors as the Cannes film festival hit the halfway point.
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Frameline32 to open with 'Affinity'
"Affinity," a Victorian bodice ripper, will open the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival on June 19 at the Castro. The festival, known as Frameline32, closes June 29 with the comedy "Breakfast With Scot," it was announced at a press conference...
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Finishing touches put on Duke Ellington's opera
Every day, artists get bored, distracted, or die, leaving their work in a state of limbo. The world's desk drawers must sequester untold numbers of semideveloped plays, novels, paintings, and string quartets. Yet for some reason, the idea of the unfinished artwork is a source of unbridled fascinatio ...
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The Little People
Local artist Suzanne Husky makes soft sculpture, soft portraits, and soft murals. She also makes marmalade, but let's set that aside for a moment. At "You Make Me Make You," a new solo show, the French-born Husky exhibits several series of tiny soft people who represent Mexican laborers, Chinese fac ...
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Art Collab
Depending on whom you ask, the Bay Area art world is either a major world center for creative innovation or a self-referential backwater prone to tunnel vision. If it’s possible for it to be both simultaneously, the multidisciplinary San Francisco International Arts Festival is well poised to a ...
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Shots in the Dark
CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget, let alone transcend, one's unnatural situation here. The opening film of Cannes's 2008 edition clobbered participants with a ...
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Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects Designs New Wing Luke Asian Art Museum
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the new Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle, scheduled to open on May 31.
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Vladivostok to exhibit Night of Museums
As part of the annual worldwide events to celebrate International Museum Day, Vladivostok museums, art galleries and exhibition halls will feature displays for city residents and guests during the ‘Night of Museums’ to start Saturday evening and continue until early Sunday.
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Canon Supports Renowned Artist's First Photo Books
Canon New Zealand is continuing its partnership with prominent artist Grahame Sydney as he sets out to publish his first photography book.
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Companies from six countries to attend the Theatre Festival in Sibiu
The organizers decided to re-launch the Performance Stock Exchange for this year’s edition as well, by adopting the formula of the Theatre Stock Exchange of Freiberg or to the Dance Stock Exchange of Brussels.
Nine O'Clock |
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A hockey champ's handiwork
A Hill-Murray goaltender has caught on as an apprentice at his art teacher's framing business.
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Advocates say the arts help the state’s economy
Representatives of arts organizations say the jobs they have added would be imperiled if the General Assembly cuts their financing.
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Beautiful craftwork by MES students
Doha • The Girls Section of the MES Indian School put up a splendid crafts display at a craft exhibition hosted by the students of classes VII to XII. Using their aesthetic sense, craftsmanship and colour, the students created art out of waste material.
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So here's the story ...
Arts & entertainment: The Cannes festival is the biggest film market in the world - but what makes a producer bite?
Guardian Unlimited |
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107 submissions for Waiheke outdoor exhibition
WAIHEKE ISLAND 21 May 2008 – headland SCULPTURE ON THE GULF, New Zealand’s premier outdoor sculpture exhibition, has received 107 submissions from sculptors throughout the country, as the deadline for entries passed for the upcoming 2009 exhibition.
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